TY  - JOUR
T1  - Sustainable Community Participation in Homestay Program
AU - Amin, Aziz AU - Ibrahim, Yahaya 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SP  - 18
EP  - 23
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2016.18.23
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.18.23
KW  - sustainable development
KW  -attitude
KW  -Community participation
KW  -homestay program
KW  -relationship
AB  - This study explores the emergence and possibilities of sustainable community participation in the homestay program as a new approach in the tourism industry in Malaysia. This study focusses on the assessing the relationship between community participation, attitude and sustainable development in the homestay program. This research uses a path-model survey to acquire the causal relationships and multiple
regressions to verify the adjusted R<SUP>2</SUP> with the data derived from 306 homestay participants in Malaysia. The result found that the first layer of the path diagram indicate 16.1% of variance attitude was determined by factors involving community participation and 31.1% of sustainable development was determined by community participation and attitude. The findings imply that attitude emerges as a prominent intermediary and moderating variable in discerning the relationship between community participation and sustainable development. Finally, the results indicated that the community participation is a crucial factor in developing sustainable development in the homestay program.
ER  -